• Without Knowledge or Consent

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 28 06:32:49 2024
    For years, America's most iconic gun-makers turned over sensitive
    personal information on hundreds of thousands of customers to
    political operatives.

    Those operatives, in turn, secretly employed the details to rally
    firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians running for Congress and
    the White House, a ProPublica investigation has found.
    ...
    ...
    At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington, Marlin and Mossberg, handed over names, addresses and other
    private data to the gun industry's chief lobbying group, the National
    Shooting Sports Foundation. The NSSF then entered the gun owners'
    details into what would become a massive database.

    https://www.propublica.org/article/gunmakers-owners-sensitive-personal-information-glock-remington-nssf

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Oct 28 12:06:59 2024
    On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 12:40:57 -0400, Auric Hellman
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Uncle Sam does too.

    During previous Bush administration, a government database was to be
    manage by a private sector company. Laws are different for govt vs
    private sector.

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